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Just Caffeine pt. 3
I live in the margins of a major city, a choice that now feels less like compromise and more like quiet preference. Iβm old enough to admit that the glamor of being in the heart of it all, the clamor, the lights, the perpetual nearness of strangers, no longer holds much appeal. Even when I β read more
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Just Caffeine pt. 2
image: The Toronto Star Weekly, Ontario, May 18, 1912 from yesterdaysprint According to @econojam, I won tickets to the OK Go concert on May 19th. I havenβt bought one of their records in about a year, so this feels like a nudge from the universe. Skipped my usual oat milk matcha latte and went with β read more
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On the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
First, I feel compelled to admitβthough not confess, because that would imply atonement Iβm not yet ready to enactβthat I have been struggling to read. Not just to read as one opens a book and follows its trail, but to remain within that realm long enough for thought to deepen and echo. This is not β read more
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Just Caffeine pt. 1
image: August MalmstrΓΆm, “Dancing Fairies” (1866) Twenty years ago, I didnβt think Iβd be sitting in a coffee shop in the East Bay, sipping matcha like a calm, centered adult who experiments with fountain pen ink for fun. Iβm not boredβI just quit my job after catching my own reflection and thinking, Oh god, what β read more
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Retake: Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
Perhaps the most honest way to begin is with a disclaimer: I am not an authority on poetry. I make no claims to be oneβnot in any formal, spiritual, or social mediaβverified sense. And yet, with a bachelor’s degree in literature and a masterβs in creative writing, Iβve accumulated what one might call situational fluency. β read more
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